Now, I am not too picky about hotels in Spain and Barcelona hotels tend to be below average, but this was a "basic" Barcelona hotel. It wasn't awful, but it was pretty bad. The rooms were uncomfortable and smelled odd, kind of a mix of detergent and paint, so if you spent more than an hour breathing it in you got a cracking headache. Now I am glad they do touch up the paint now and again, but I wasn't happy to be stuffed in a tiny stinky paintcan for 3 days. Yes tiny. Very small room, there were two small beds a desk and a window, and very little floor. I had to hang my suit from the TV and put my bag in the bath.

Location, I thought it would be good but was wrong. Placa Reial can be a bit of a mess and it is a bit of a tramp up the rambla to get to things, and I can't be bothered with the Rambla most days. There are a few good spanish places around, but you have to know how to find them, the good ones dont have people outside trying to lure you in. Thats all i'm going to say about that......

So with all this, you might think it was cheap? It wasn't. It wasn't silly expensive, but to put it in perspective, I payed less for 4 nights in a 4 star hotel in Alicante on the same week, than I did for 3 night in this 1 star.

I suppose I might stay here again if I had to. But it would have to be some kind of accomodation emergency.

Central location excellent. Although everyone was very friendly and helpful, the accommodation was not good. We were at the very top (dreadful lift) at the back with a window that would not open and no aircon. The view I guess was too bad to let anyone see. The bathroom smelt and the whole feeling of the hotel was very very basic. We arrived from Greece late (chaos on the railways) and so were too exhausted to change our room. Beware of being there on a Sunday evening when there are long queues at every restaurant in the square everyone waiting to eat

The hotel is in a very central place. The staff was very helpful and friendly. The room we stayed in had a balcony so I guess we were more lucky than others. The balcony overlooked Placa Real which was very nice. The room was a bit small but we expected it to be that way. What we didn't expect was that in the room there was only 1 plug and another in the bathroom. We stayed at the hotel in August and it was hot so the fan was always on, so that only left 1 plug for us to use! But on the whole it was value for money!

Not recommended to ANYONE!!! except school students... very noisy, no way to sleep during the night... drugs, many hookers at the plaza in front of the hotel, lots of good guys looking forward to stealing anything they can, many tourists vomiting all over the plaza...
Really awful the surroundings..
And now we come to the nicest part: the hotel...
the elevator really old!!!! a miracle if you don't stuck in there... the room where we stayed was too SMALL (I' ve been to various hotels, nothing similar to this suck), there was no balcony, only a small window... there were only two plugs (one of them in the bathroom!!!!)
in one word: REALLY SUCKS!!!!